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...while these shows were fun, they were far from educational. It wasn't until the debut of Sesame Street on Nov. 10, 1969, that TV became a medium tasked with developing young minds. Sesame Street's success wasn't exactly a surprise--about 2 million households tuned in to its premiere on PBS--but it was groundbreaking nonetheless. In addition to teaching kids ABCs and math--under the tutelage of an 8-ft.-tall yellow bird and an irritable garbage-can dweller--it was one of the first TV shows to depict an inclusive, racially harmonious neighborhood, prompting Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: Children's Television | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Bloomberg won a third term by a surprisingly small margin, despite spending more than $85 million on the race. Many New Yorkers deemed the billionaire out of touch and resented his role in overturning term limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Election Day | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Mafia Wars is a game you can play on Facebook or MySpace or various other social networks. It's insanely popular: Zynga, the company that makes it, claims that it has more than 25 million players. (Zynga also makes the ubiquitous agri-sim game FarmVille.) Part of the appeal is that it costs nothing to play Mafia Wars. That is, if nothing is how much your immortal soul is worth to you. (See the top 10 video games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Last month, Tony Musulin was a nobody, a single 39-year-old man who drove an armored bank security van in Lyon, France. Then on Nov. 5, when two co-workers briefly left him alone to run an errand, he allegedly vanished with more than $17.2 million in unmarked bills. It only took police a few days to recover most of the stolen loot - nearly $14 million - in a storage unit in Lyon, and then on Monday, Musulin turned himself in to authorities in Monaco (without the remaining $3.8 million). Many Frenchmen may have been a little disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Bank Robber Became an Antihero in France | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...aggressive on the issue since taking office. During her first trip to Asia, she participated in a webchat interview on climate change in Beijing, hosted by the China Daily, during which she responded to questions submitted online. According to the state-owned newspaper, the chat drew more than 10.2 million page views, 50,000 comments and 7,000 questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Obama Get Around China's 'Great Firewall'? | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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